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It invalidates unknown space a bit. There should be a middle option like you can see a player but not the ships.

• jeremyjh 7y ago
  Does local chat tell you ship types now? When I played (2006-2009) you would only see the players in the system, you would have to be in scanner range to see ship types, and only if you opened the scanner. I think the new system sounds great; wormholes existed in my time but I never used them I played strictly in nullsec. The changes would actually make it harder to gank ratters and miners though. Because most nullsec systems are unpopulated at any given time when you are looking for targets you would fly from system to system and only stop and investigate when there were people in local. So yes, the miners can't see when a ganker enters local but the gankers can't see when targets are present either. If you want to hide out and rat in a relatively low-quality system probably no one would ever find you.
  • MrMorden 7y ago
    No; local is just character names. Ship classes are visible on D-scan (except cloaked or combat recon) or combat probes.
  • CrazyStat 7y ago
    No, local chat still just shows you names. There are ways to target yourv search for miners and ratters, using info from the in game map or websites using the API. See e.g. [1] which shows how many rats babe been killed in an hour time period in each system. These kinds of tools were probably less common in your day. [1] https://eveeye.com/?m=Delve&o=tag_none,con_none,etag_sig,sector_npc,node_npc,sub_none https://eveeye.com/?m=Delve&o=tag_none,con_none,etag_sig,sec...